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Old 26-08-2008, 7:58 PM   #1
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Best Song Intro Ever ?
Was driving home from a meeting and had Radio1 on and decided that most stuff on Radio1 is crap.
Popped in my cd and on comes The Who - Pinball Wizard. This got me to thinking that there are very few songs around nowadays that have decent intros.
Thought I would start this thread to see what folk reckoned to be a great intro. Looking for quirky , different , strange or just pure awesome intros as per Pinball Wizard.
Could throw up some intereting suggestions or die on it's arse. Lets see.
I'll start the ball rolling.

AC/DC - Live Wire
AC/DC - Hell's Bells
Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke
Korn - Twisted Transistor
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
and of course -
The Who - Pinball Wizard

Cheers.
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Old 26-08-2008, 8:02 PM   #2
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Enter Sandman....Metallica....were off to never never land do da do do da do...Sorry...Takes my car too 60 mph in the blink of an eye...Apparently
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Old 26-08-2008, 8:08 PM   #3
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
COB - Needled 24/7. No ******** just straight down to business.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjZXUyvFQDA
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Old 26-08-2008, 8:52 PM   #4
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (slight return)
Isaac Hayes - Theme from Shaft (none cooler, in fact the whole song is the intro )
Metallica - Battery & One
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine, Shine On You Crazy Diamond & wish You Were Here
Black Sabbath - War Pigs & NIB
Motohead - Ace of Spades
The Temptations - Papa was a Rolling Stone

loads more here
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Old 26-08-2008, 9:15 PM   #5
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
My Bad
Didn't realise it had already been done.
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Old 26-08-2008, 9:28 PM   #6
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
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My Bad
Didn't realise it had already been done.
Ah no worries,
To be fair, it is 5 years old - I was referring to that thread because it had some good suggestions, I was not trying to say it has already been discussed.
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Old 26-08-2008, 9:49 PM   #7
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
No probs
Let's see if this one throws up anything new or as I suspect there are very few in 'newer' music.
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Old 26-08-2008, 11:07 PM   #8
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Good thread. I don't remember the original.

I'll add Accept's "Fast as a Shark"

[youtube]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iYu75uJj_Ys&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iYu75uJj_Ys&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/youtube]
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Old 26-08-2008, 11:19 PM   #9
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Couldn't resist the title of this thread

Santana - Black Magic Woman

The Temptations - Papa Was a Rolling Stone
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Old 26-08-2008, 11:45 PM   #10
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Iron Maiden - Phantom Of The Opera
(Daley Thompson's Lucozade ad of the 80s )

[youtube]xBetudbtRto[/youtube]


Metallica - Fade To Black

[youtube]XRbCThi3ZhM[/youtube]
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Old 27-08-2008, 12:41 AM   #11
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Cool Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
I Heard it Though the Grapevine Marvin Gaye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hajBdDM2qdg
Baker Street Gerry Raferty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgbGaYTkkPU
Papa Was a Rolling Stone The Temptations (as above). music 2 min into video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrau7zzc3E
Backstabbers O Jays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVC2j_Kdw8c
Harden My Heart Quaterflash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1_E6pHa3hc
Just be Good to Me SOS Band
You’ll Never Know Hi-Gloss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzgFKzT9eK8

Loving You Losing You Phyllis Hyman about 2.45 into on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc8NqMJeU-E

I’m sure there’s a lot of Barry White material seen the think without digging it out the album version of his Standing in the Shadows is very good.

Found it Im classing the vocals at the start as into as well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ByOrdYZ3c

Cleopatra Jones Joe Simon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFFuO7LZA2Y
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Old 27-08-2008, 10:34 AM   #12
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

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Old 27-08-2008, 12:58 PM   #13
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
AC/DC - You shook me all night long
Dire Straits - Money for nothing
Queen - I want to break free

My favourite:

U2 - Where the streets have no name: The lush synth pad, followed by the Edge's palm mute guitar and then the hooky bass kicking it into gear. Great stuff
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Old 27-08-2008, 2:40 PM   #14
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Nirvana-Smells Like Teen Spirit
Pink Floyd-Money
Deep Purple-Smoke on the Water
Queen-We will Rock You.
and definitely another vote for Dire Straits-Money for nuthin
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Old 27-08-2008, 2:59 PM   #15
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
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Metallica - Fade To Black
i agree, amazing intro! and somebody mentioned "one" as well...that'd defo be one of my favourites
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Old 27-08-2008, 3:00 PM   #16
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Sex Pistols-pretty vacant-anarchy in the uk
david bowie- jean genie although i detest the song
velvet underground-sweet jane
the Cult -she sells sanctuary
Pixies-monkey gone to heaven
Talk Talk-lifes what you make it
Wire-i am the fly
Magazine -shot by both sides
oh and The Mekons where were you
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Old 27-08-2008, 7:48 PM   #17
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Fly Me To The Moon - Sinatra and Basie
So What - Miles Davis
School's Out - Alice Cooper
Montana - Frank Zappa
Dance On A Volcano - Genesis
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Montana - Frank Zappa
Why the hell didn't I think of that one
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Old 27-08-2008, 8:52 PM   #19
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Old 27-08-2008, 10:42 PM   #20
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
I honestly really like how James Brown works the crowd in
I Feel All Right
From the second Live at the Apollo album
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Old 28-08-2008, 9:32 AM   #21
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
A few more punky ones:

Public Image by Public Image Ltd
Another Girl, Another Planet by the Only Ones
New Rose by the Damned
The Bottom Line by Big Audio Dynamite
Transmission by Joy Division

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Old 28-08-2008, 4:37 PM   #22
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
Garrett, your'e the Soul MAN - they were great!

I would add:
Almost Cut My Hair - CSN & Y
Days Like This - Van Morrison
Heartbreaker - led Zeppelin
Mojo Pin - Jeff Buckley
Vein of Stars - The Flaming Lips
Vertigo - U2
Eat That Question - Frank Zappa

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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
No laughing now -

Is The Final Countdown intro like how I imagined it?
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no laughing now -

is the final countdown intro like how i imagined it?
no
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No laughing now -

Is The Final Countdown intro like how I imagined it?
You mean like this?

[YOUTUBE]XkMWdI2IKiw[/YOUTUBE]

It's good, but I'm not sure its the best
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
I love this one:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_hVDQmt4XWY

This one's already been mentioned:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LJMnES7WoT4

And this is a personal fave:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NDNvWDV7eTU

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Old 29-08-2008, 11:43 AM   #27
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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
How come no one's mentioned this:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ErgzObQJMPM

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Re: Best Song Intro Ever ?
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You mean like this?

[youtube]XkMWdI2IKiw[/youtube]

It's good, but I'm not sure its the best
Christ ! Sounds even better than I remember.
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Hallowed be thy name - Iron Maiden
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The Who - Baba O'Riley
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